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| The political and economic confrontation between the soviet union and the united states that dominated world affairs from 1946 to 1989 |
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| Council of Economic Advisers |
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| Board of three professional economists established in 1946 to advise the president on economic policy |
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| Federal Legislation of 1947 that substantially limited the tools available to labor unions in labor management disputes |
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| Legislation in June 1944 that eased the return of veterans into American Society by providing educational and employment benefits. |
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| Suburban Long Island community of postwar rental houses built by william levitt for veterans of world war II |
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| The Withholding of home purchase loans and insurance coverage from inner city older neighborhoods by federal housing agencies and private industry. |
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| International Monetray Fund (IMF) |
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| International organization established in 1945 to assist nations in maintaining stable currencies |
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| Designed to revive postwar international trade, it drew on the resources of member nations to make economic development loans to governments for such projects as new dams or agricultural modernization. |
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| President Harry Truman's statement in 1947 that the united states should assist other nations that were facing external pressure or internal evolution. |
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| Secretary of State George C. Marshall's European Recovery Plan of June 5 1947 committing the United States to help in the rebuilding of post world war II Europe |
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| The Policy of resisting further expansion of the Soviet bloc through diplomacy and if necessary, military action, developed in 1947-1948 |
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| Three hundred day soviet blockade of land access to united states british and french occupation zones in berlin 1948-1949 |
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| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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| Agency established in 1947 that coordinates the gathering and evaluation of military and economic information on other nations |
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| National Security Council (NSC) |
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| The formal policymaking body for national defense and foreign relations, created in 1947 and consisting of the president the secretary of defense the secretary of state and others appointed by the president. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| Organization of ten European countries, Canada, and the United States, whom together formed a mutual defense pact in April 1949 |
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| National Security Council paper 68 (NSC-68) |
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| Policy statement that committed the united states to a military approach to the cold war. |
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| Pacific war started on June 25 1950 when North Korea helped by soviet equipment and Chinese training attacked South Korea |
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| House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
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| Orginally intened to ferret out pro-fascists, it later investigated "un-american propaganda" that attacked constitutional government. |
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| Anti-Communist attitudes and actions associated with Senator Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s including smear tactics and innuendo. |
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